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Leland "Lee" Zavitz (August 20, 1904β June 2, 1977) was a special effects technician. He was born in Mount Vernon, Washington. His first major impact was for his work on John Ford's 1937 film, The Hurricane. Zavitz's work on the 1950 space fantasy film Destination Moon won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. He also worked on films such as Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), The Alamo (1960), Sodom and Gomorrah (1963), The Pink Panther (1963) and John Frankenheimer's The Train (1964). His last film was Sydney Pollack's wartime chiller Castle Keep in 1969.
Zavitz held patents on several devices used in his film work, including fog machines, rain bombs, an exploding wagon and "a lightning torch that can be seen for 50 miles."
Filmography
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Movies 17
Viva Maria! (1965)
The Pink Panther (1963)
On the Beach (1959)
From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
The River's Edge (1957)
The Snow Creature (1954)
Bait (1954)
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
The Bushwhackers (1951)
Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
Destination Moon (1950)
The Crooked Way (1949)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
Captain Kidd (1945)
Guest in the House (1944)
The Hurricane (1937)
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GenderMale
Birthday1904-08-20
Deathday1977-06-02 (72 years old)
Birth PlaceMount Vernon, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsLee Zavits
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